Thursday, July 9, 2015

OSAT Blog Hop - Christmas in July

Welcome to the
One Stamp At a Time Blog Hop for July - Christmas in July! I hope you
enjoyed the marvelous projects in the previous blog.

These were interesting to work on as its humid and 90 degrees outside with a chance of thunderstorm. I had to think back to winter & to our upcoming winter of cold, snowy, and blue.Stampin' Up! changed things with this year's annual catalog and included a few Christmas sets to tide us over until the Holiday Catalog. This gave me a few stamp sets to choose from for this blog. I decided to got away from the traditional green & red for Christmas which was fun & something I don't do often. Without further delay here is my card & project for this month.

This card was a fun one to make as I combined a number of techniques/styles.....embossing resist, sponging, and surprise fold.

The card base is
Marina Mist and I cut on an oval with the Oval Framelits. The surprise
fold is made with a layer of Whisper White. The Lovely as a Tree evergreen was stamped in Memento Black. I used one of the Gorgeous Grunge background stamps to create snow in this scene and embossed in white embossing powder. Below is a few photos to show all the pieces of the card. The sponging for the card was done in 3 blue inks...Pacific Point, Marina Mist, and Soft Sky. I'm loving the new Washi Label punch to use with the go-to stamp set of Teeny Tiny Wishes.

The Curvy Keepsake thinlet has become one of my favorites by Stampin' Up! and is a must have for Christmas projects! I decided to make a luminary out of vellum paper embossed with white embossing powder. The Festival of Trees stamp set was used and again featured the Gorgeous Grunge background stamp as snow. I used some Whisper White cardstock to reinforce the bottom of it as I put a battery operated tea light in it.

The next blog in our Christmas and July hop is the very, very talented Holly!

What a lovely fun fold card. I like both versions of the Christmas tree, but am partial to your first one. The curvy keepsake box is so much fun and I love what you've done with it here. Thanks for sharing.

About Me

I've been a Stampin' Up demonstrator since 2014. We reside in the St Louis, Missouri area, and I love sharing the art of card making & paper crafting with others. Besides card making & paper crafting you will find me working outside in our vegetable & flower gardens, doing other crafts (like crocheting), and watching sports.